827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God’s will.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.

The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor – thank Heaven! – always Storm.